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title: Proper cringe, how did the Manticora react when Lionel pushed it? — Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper cringe, how did the Manticora react when Lionel pushed it? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 635 «Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a Manticora, then a Hippogriff, and chases the Dragon to the Pebbly Waste» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 4 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…

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Proper cringe, how did the Manticora react when Lionel pushed it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Manticora, Lionel · **What happens:** react, push · **To what, where:** Manticora

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 635 «Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a Manticora, then a Hippogriff, and chases the Dragon to the Pebbly Waste» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/635-pg23661-part3/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t4:1
# text = Proper cringe, how did the Manticora react when Lionel pushed it?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cringe	cringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	react	react	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **react** | past · do-support | the Manticora |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **push** | past | Lionel | Manticora |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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it legged it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t4:o1:1
# text = it legged it
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	legged	leg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leg** | past | it | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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it legged it straight off round the corner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t4:o2:1
# text = it legged it straight off round the corner
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	legged	leg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leg** | past | it | it |  |  |  | round the corner; off *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it did a runner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t4:o3:1
# text = it did a runner
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | it | a runner |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it went flying off down the road as fast as it could

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t4:o4:1
# text = it went flying off down the road as fast as it could
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | it |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly off** | gerund |  |  |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory |

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